Railway stations of Fayoum Light Railway as shown in Baedeker of 1908[1]
Company bond certificate, 1 October 1899; the left edge is indentured.
Technical
Track gauge
750 mm (2 ft 5½ in)
Length
106 mi (171 km)
The Fayoum Light Railway (FLR) was a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge Egyptian light railway. Founded by a group of Egyptian Coptic investors, it operated in the first half of the twentieth century.[2]
^Vincent L. Morgan and Spencer G. Lucas: Notes From Diary – Fayum Trip, 1907. New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 2002.
^Marilyn Booth and Gorman Anthony: The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance. Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Page 84.
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